Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of (a) the average cost per emergency response and (b) the number of successful treatments of cardiac arrest resulting in return of spontaneous circulation in Shropshire in each year since the regionalisation of ambulance services; and what estimate he has made of the average ambulance response time for callers triaged as having (i) a stroke, (ii) a cardiac arrest and (iii) chest pain in Shropshire for the last 12 months.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that the cost of a West Midland Ambulance Service incident in 2021/22 is £225.36. No such estimate has been made of the number of successful treatments of cardiac arrest resulting in return of spontaneous circulation in Shropshire. The average ambulance response time for callers triaged as having a stroke, a cardiac arrest and chest pain in Shropshire for the last 12 months is not collected centrally.